An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland: Forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials : Upon an Entirely New Plan ...

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T. Richards, 1874 - Heraldry

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Page 1045 - Gules, three legs armed, conjoined in fesse at the upper part of the thighs, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred, or.
Page 920 - Aug. 1825] or, an eagle's head, erased, gu. encircled by a branch of laurel on the dexter, and of oak on the sinister side; on a chief ar.
Page 1041 - Wilts.] quarterly : first and fourth, quarterly, ar. and gu.; in the second and third quarters, a fret or, over all, on a bend sa.
Page 1045 - ... legs, armed, ppr. conjoined in the centre, at the upper part of the thigh, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred or; fourth, ar.
Page 1031 - Argent on a mount vert, a square Brazen pillar, supported on the dexter by a Lion rampant regardant ; and on the sinister by a Dragon segreant, both or ; in chief, on the top of the pillar a bundle of wire tied and bound together of the last, between a bezant on the dexter side and a plate on the sinister.
Page 903 - Augmentation, gules, a dexter arm embowed, in armour, issuing from the sinister side of the shield, holding in the hand a sword erect, all...
Page 795 - Quarterly [argent and gules], in the second and third quarters a fret [or], over all a bend [sable], charged with three escallop shells [of the first].
Page 1104 - Register] per fesse, or and az. a lymphad, with her sails trussed up, and oars in action, of the first; in the dexter chief point, a hand, couped, grasping a dagger, point upwards, gu.; in the sinister chief, a cross crosslet fitchee of the last. — Crest, a cat, sejant, ppr.
Page 902 - DONOVAN Argent issuing from the sinister side of the shield a cubit dexter arm vested gules cuffed of the first the hand grasping a scian in pale the blade entwined with a serpent all proper.
Page 1090 - April, 1605] az. an antique hulk, the stern terminating with the head of a dragon ; in the hulk the ark, with three doors in the side ; from the ark, against the side, a step-ladder, all or: on a chief ar.

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